Seguin Daily News is giving you a preview of special features, submitted by local community leaders to help kick start your holiday celebration. Inside today’s SDN you’ll also read why the holidays are so special for the staff at KWED, the Seguin Daily News and Seguin Today.
Somewhere Santa is sleeping while Rudolph and the other reindeer play games. In the workshop, elves tinker away crafting toys for good girls and boys to be delivered by midnight flight.
Away Santa will soar with a sleigh full of gifts ready to be stowed below merrily dressed trees. He’ll taste-cookies and sip fresh milk before dashing back up the chimney and into the air. Around the world, he and his team will fly, riding an aurora borealis trail of lights back to the North Pole while Christmas carols leave a hum on the wind.
Below, the Polar Express chugs dutifully, casting billowing plumes of smoke into perfect snow flurries, while a family sips hot cocoa and watches it pass out their window.
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas jolts from his slumber and lets loose a thrice-quaking belly-laugh that wakes Mrs. Claus.
“Merry Christmas!” He exclaims, his belly jiggling, as he booms.
“Oh, honey,” grumbles Mrs. Claus. “Go back to sleep. It’s not yet for a few more weeks.”
You can find this month’s editor letter inside Seguin Today available at shops in Seguin and at the KWED offices.
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Linda Duncan
When I was born, a lady from my parent’s church gave a baby shower gift with a homemade little blue stocking that has my first and middle name (Linda Sue) stitched in pink. It has hung on our family tree every year since. My Mom always made sure there was something special in that little stocking on the tree for me on Christmas morning. It was a gift given in expectation of my arrival to this world. Little did that lady or my parents know that it would become to me a symbol of life and a reminder to me of the greatest gift that was ever given… Jesus. Some may see a worn, aging stocking hanging on my tree, but to me, it is a reminder that I am loved with an everlasting love and to live in expectation of another expected arrival.
Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
Having a birthday on Dec. 22 – just 3 days before Christmas — has always made my birthday feel a bit magical, a little more special. Heck, I even came home from the hospital in a red Santa stocking. So as you can tell, it doesn’t get any more “Christmacy” than that. Now although along the way, I might have had a few red and green birthday cakes or a few Merry Christmas balloons mixed into my birthday balloon bouquet, I’ve always embraced the combination of both occasions. In the end, a gift is a gift no matter whether in a birthday gift bag or under some Santa gift wrap. Most importantly, I’ve also always enjoyed spending time with my large family.
I think one of the best positives of a growing family is that we have opted out of getting together on the actual Christmas day holiday and instead have adopted another day in December in which we can all be together – no longer stopping by for only a couple of hours or having to split the time with other relatives and friends but simply a time to spend much of the day and night with each other. I have had the honor of taking ownership of hosting our Aguirre Family Christmas in my home. The objective is to make memories and to ensure that everyone no matter the age is involved and walks away with happiness in their heart.
These last few years have been extra precious as my husband Jesse Herrera, and I have gotten to share and enjoy the holiday season with our own children. They include our 11-year-old son Ashton and 10-year-old daughter Emmy. We’ve made it our Herrera tradition to enjoy all things Christmas and to count down each of the days until the 25th. Kids are magical and we soak in every bit of that magic with them.
In the end, family is priority and for me, Christmas means family.
You can read more of our staff Holiday faves in today’s issue of the Seguin Daily News.